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Review: `Angry Black White Boy’
EXTENDED AGAIN THROUGH DEC. 7 Keith Pinto (left) and Dan Wolf star in Wolf’s adaptation of the Adam Mansbach novel Angry Black White Boy at San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts. The dynamic...
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Catwoman’s `Journey,’ `Angry’ keeps going
Lee Meriwether has had a long, distinguished career that stretches from her beauty queen days as Miss San Francisco, Miss California and eventually Miss America in the mid-’50s to her stint alongside...
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Theater by the Bay: Best of 2008
Theatergoing in the San Francisco Bay Area is one of life’s treats. No question about it. If you love theater, this is a wonderland. In this devastating economic climate, may that only hold true for...
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Diaz novel `Oscar Wao’ hits stage as `Fuku Americanus’
I wrote a story for the San Francisco Chronicle about Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao becoming the Campo Santo/Intersection for the Arts play Fuku...
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Theater review: `Fukú Americanus’
EXTENDED AGAIN THROUGH JULY 12! Maria Candelaria (left) is Belicia, Biko Eisen-Martin (center) is Fukú and Vanessa Cota is Lola in the Campo Santo/Intersection for the Arts production of Fukú...
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It’s alive! Death and theater
Two extraordinary shows are lighting up Bay Area stages, and in each of them, the specter of death hovers in the shadows. In Trevor Allen’s intelligent, compassionate adaptation of Frankenstein at the...
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Intersection breaks walls, audience follows
EXTENDED THROUGH APRIL 3! Pictured from left: Daveed Diggs, Traci Tolmaire, Margo Hall and Dwight Huntsman in the world premiere of Chinaka Hodge’s Mirrors in Every Corner at Intersection for the Arts....
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Fathers and sons, heists and homelands in Habibi
EXTENDED THROUGH NOV. 21! Aleph Ayin and Nora El Samahy are son and mother in the world premiere of Sharif Abu-Hamdeh’s Habibi, a co-production of Campo Santo and Intersection for the Arts. Below: El...
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High art, grim lives shaded in ambitious Tree City
Three Brothers: The Kane brother of Dennis Kim’s Tree City Legends are (from left) Sean San Jose as Denizen, Taiyo Na as Min and Juan Amador as Sum. Below: San Jose’s Denizen recalls a troubled...
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Campo Santo’s wild ride on a raging River
Lakin Valdez (left) is Javier and Christopher Ward White is Lance in the world premiere of Richard Montoya’s The River, a Campo Santo/Intersection for the Arts production. Below: Donald E. Lacy Jr....
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Campo Santo, Cal Shakes do some Califas dreaming
EXTENDED THROUGH NOV. 23 Sean San José is Isaac in the Campo Santo/California Shakespeare Theater production of Alleluia, the Road by Luis Alfaro. The play is one part of the elaborate Califas Festival...
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2013: The year’s best Bay Area theater
If you’re looking for the year’s best, you can shorten your search by heading directly to Word for Word, that ever-amazing group that turns short works of fiction into some of the most captivating...
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